It was a hectic week with all the submission happening concurrently, I am glad that it all turn out well.
Honestly, couldn’t have done it without the help of my team (Hwee Ann & Clarita).

Final project

Planning

In the week leading up to consultation, our group didn’t do any preparation for our installation – something we later realised we should have done. To be honest, we weren’t really confident that our idea would be approved by Ruyi, and didn’t want to have to redo any part of our installation that we might already have completed. As a result, we had a week to produce our installation, as well as complete our other assignments. We decided that the bulk of the creation would be done in the 3 days leading up to submission. In order to ensure that everything went smoothly, we carefully planned our execution.

Shoutout to Hwee Ann for coming out with the spreadsheets she honestly made the entire process so much more organise. Biggest take away from her !

 

 

Script

Before writing the script, we came up with character profiles for each character.

We knew that we had 4 different characters with 5 different screens, and we would have to carefully coordinate the screens of the characters. This would be especially so if they were interacting with one another through their phones, such as in the scene where the mother sends the video of her baby via Whatsapp. With this in mind, we came up with the following table:

We wrote all the dialogue first, then decided what would be shown on each screen based on that. While writing the script, we also decided to make the entire video short as we knew that our audience would easily get bored if the meal and dialogue was too long.

One of our initial ideas was for the projector to light up as each character spoke. However,we scraped this later on as we felt it would be sufficient if speech bubbles of what each character was saying appeared on the projection on the table.

With all this done, we then split the work. Clarita made the goggles that our audience would have to peer through to see our installation. I worked on the video projection on the table. Hwee Ann was in charge of videos played on the phones and iPads.

 

Sourcing for Materials

One of the first things we had to settle was the sourcing of materials. Our installation is rather setup heavy. We went around ADM looking for materials, especially the table and chair. Based on the size of the table, we would be able to see the space we had to work with for the projection on the table. The table and chair would also determine the size of our goggles, such that it the viewer would be able to look into the googles when sitting on the chair.

 

Projection Testing

We tested to see if the size of the projection fit the size of the table. It was slightly smaller, but we decided to make do with it. We also tested to see if the room we had chosen was high enough for the projection to be of a decent size.

 

Execution

Making of Goggles

Clarita was in charge of making the goggles for our installation. She make it so professional and polish and really step up the game. Amazing job girlllll !!

Video Prep

Hwee ann was in charge of the video prep. poor girl, she have to record all the user interaction on the ipad and edit it into a video. But awesome job girl !!! You did it !!

Sound

The voice overs were done by me and my friend, shout out to Celeste and her family!!! Helping us up with this while being 8mth pregnant! She is a mother of 2 so having her family being part of this project, make it so much more authentic.

We then recorded our own foley sounds, such as the sounds of eating, and the banging of pots.

Hwee Ann and I then put the sound together to form our audio. With that completed, we then edited the videos based on the audio.

Setup

Setting up the furniture for our installation was easy too (Major thanks to the drawing room for providing most of our furniture).

Thanks girl for moving the furniture from the drawing room to 2-19 <3

The hard part was setting up the projector such that we would be able to project our video on the table. We went with our initial plan of attaching the projector to the ceiling. Clarita and I did the setup, while Hwee ann worked on editing the videos. We placed the projector into a tote bag, and tied the bag to the frame using ruffian string. (Thought it was a genius idea-.-)

And then. Just after they’d finally attached the projector to the ceiling, the projector died. We weren’t sure if it was because there was no circulation in the bag and the projector overheated, but it just stopped working, so.

Thankfully, Nevin’s group had an extra projector, so they lent their’s to us (thanks very much to Nevin’s group!). It also happened that this projector was able to project over a larger area than the one we had, and was perfect for us to use a mirror to reflect the projection on the table. So finally, after much effort, we did it! All that was left was to finish setting up the room, and edit all the videos.

Initially, the background of the projection on the table was supposed to be white. However, there was too much distortion, and we decided to change it to a dark greenish blue instead.

Projection mapping 

The entire animation was done using after effect and illustrator.

Firstly , coming out with the layout

Then illustrating each bubble individually

Then animating it using aftereffect

Having the animation up is one thing but having the layout to fit perfectly to our table is another thing. So I ended up having to almost re-edit the entire video as all the keyframe of the animation have to me change to fit the projection layout.

 

Individual  video on all the devices 

 

Behind the scene 

 

The only group photo we have tgt !! <3 I still remember the first few weeks of 4D class, being all alone as i step into a new environment (fail starwars). The lonely literally killed me as I watch people hanging out in groups. Fortunately, Clarita was in my OG  during orientation so I stick with her throughout and this is how I got to know hwee ann too.